Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Matin Song

Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day!

With night we banish sorrow.

Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft

To give my Love good-morrow!

Wings from the wind to please her mind,

Notes from the lark I'll borrow:

Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing!

To give my Love good-morrow!

To give my Love good-morrow

Notes from them all I'll borrow.


Wake from thy nest, robin red-breast!

Sing, birds, in every furrow!

And from each bill let music shrill

Give my fair Love good-morrow!

Blackbird and thrush in every bush,

Stare, linnet, and cocksparrow,

You pretty elves, among yourselves

Sing my fair Love good-morrow!

To give my Love good-morrow!

Sing, birds, in every furrow!

— Thomas Heywood
c. 1570-1641   


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